First my deepest appreciation to all of you who nailed it for me. Outstanding job gentlemen. I was of course an idiot to be unaware that this scholarly work would be anything less than the number of p ages it runs. I thought maybe 100 plus pages. Ploeu rook leik daq kmian!

So even though it's not bound to be a best seller if anyone hears of a place that has copies for sale.please post here.

Now as for, *yeah i said that on the other forum,
and as UT said you cant practice listening from a book, to fully understand you need to be able to hear the differences."

It's like this; I live in a total immersion environment. I am the only foreigner here, in the beginning-the very clumsy and embarrassing begining I swore that I was going to learn the (mf) Khmer alphabet. But as time went on I improved and I no longer felt the need. I measure my listening skills by my speaking skills. If my native listener understands me and makes an appropriate response then my pronunciation and accent are close enough to native to get the job done. I can't envision at my advanced years and relative poverty I will ever need classical(proper) Cambodian. I live and deal with peasants on a daily basis and have no need for loftier aspirations.

Furthermore, I have spent a large part of my life learning and improving three other foreign languages, so I have a realistic attitude and prerequisite patience. I also am married to an intelligent Cambodian speaker who is an accomplished teacher.

So, if I were single and younger and could envision a personal future in this country, I would probably slog my way through that God awful alphabet